1877.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 681 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of July was 14.5 ; of these, 54 were acquired 

 by presentation, 48 by purchase, .5 by exchange, 22 by birth, and 

 16 were received on deposit. The total number of departures 

 during the same period, by death and removal, was 102. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. A Prehensile Paradoxure {Paradoxurus prehensilisy, from 

 Assoun, on the Hounderaw river, about 90 miles from Moulmein, 

 Burmah, presented July 13th, by W. H. Pattison, Esq. 



This Paradoxure (Plate LXXI.) is of a well-marked and peculiar 

 species, quite new to us, and appears to be little known except from 

 the figure in Hardwicke and Gray's ' Indian Zoology ' (ii. pi. 9), 

 taken from a drawing of Buchanan-Hamilton. Its tail is very long 

 and slender, and appears to be slightly prehensile. 



2. A Urumutum Curassow (Nothocrax urumufum), from the 

 Upper Amazons, purchased July 16th. When I communicated to 

 the Society my memoir on the Curassows in 1873 (see Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. ix. p. 273) I was unable to figure this rare species from a living 

 example. As will be seen by the coloured sketch now exhibited, the 

 bare skin over the eye was, in consequence, coloured wrongly, the 

 upper portion over the eye being bright yellow instead of blue. 



3. A Crane, obtained from Chantung. in Northern China, and 

 kindly transmitted to the Society by Mr, Theodore Hance, of Ching- 

 kiang. It appears to belong to the eastern form of the Common 

 Crane, called Grus longirostris in the ' Fauna Japonica.' 



Comparing this bird (of which I exhibit a sketch by Mr. Smit) 

 with the Common Crane of Europe, Grus cinerea, it seems to differ 

 in its lighter colour, and in the uropygial plumes being cinereous 

 with black terminations, instead of being altogether black as in the 

 common species ; but I doubt its being specifically different. 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of August were 1 16 in number ; of these, 67 

 were acquired by presentation, 19 by purchase, 4 by birth, 8 by 

 exchange, and 18 received on deposit. The total number of de- 

 partures during the same period by death and removals were 110. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. A Cape Hedgehog {Erinaceus frontalis), purchased August 

 13th, being the first example of this southern representative of our 

 familiar British species that has reached us. 



2. A young example of the American Tantalus {Tantalus locu- 

 lator), purchased August 30th. 



3. A Brazilian Motmot (Momotus brasiliensis), purchased on the 

 same day. Both these birds belong to species hitherto unrepresented 

 in the Society's Aviaries. 



I may take this opportunity of pointing out that, as suggested to 

 me by Prof. Garrod, the male Deer, which we have had for some 



1 Viverra prehensilis, Desm. See Horsf. Oat. Mamm. E.I. C. p. 63. 



